Window manager designed for cloud services

Authors:
Shizuki Yoshino;Tetsuo Tanaka;Kazunori Matsumoto
Affiliations:
Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Atsugi, Japan;Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Atsugi, Japan;Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Atsugi, Japan
Venue:
HCI International'13 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human Interface and the Management of Information: information and interaction design - Volume Part I
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Cloud services like web-based e-mail or hosted office suites are becoming widespread. With these services, PC users are likely to use several services and to visit several sites at once. As a result, several windows appear on the desktop, and their overlapping complicates access to hidden windows. In this study, the authors propose a window manager running on the browser. The proposed window manager employs a tiling style in order to improve the usability of multiple cloud services at the same time. It also employs a window placement method, implemented by drawing frame edges, and a window replacement method using drag and drop. It is user-friendly, even for unskilled PC-users. An experiment showed that the proposed window manager was effective in reducing the number of operations for window placement or replacement.